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The Andromeda Strain

By Michael Crichton

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780060541811

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The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into Continue

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Fantastic!!!
I spent a lot of time to read it, because it's my first English book, but i like it a lot!!!!!
Crichton is wonderful, i love the way he writes and this is a really nice biologic thriller!!!
It can be actual even if it's quite old...
Really really nice!!!!

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Cassiopea said on Dec 6, 2007 | Add your feedback

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Gripping throughout, shame about the weak ending.

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sid_rw said on Jul 4, 2008 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

I had started the book a year or two earlier then re-started it and well...I love Crichton's work but I just couldn't get into this book but I did finish it.

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Stubob72556 said on Feb 26, 2008 | Add your feedback

A bit outdated (it's funny to read about oscilloscopes for sound recognition) but well written and absorbing.
It's a good book for non-native English speakers as well, thanks to its not excessively complex vocabulary.
I got it through the Bookcrossing project, and soon it will be "in th ... (continue)

A bit outdated (it's funny to read about oscilloscopes for sound recognition) but well written and absorbing.
It's a good book for non-native English speakers as well, thanks to its not excessively complex vocabulary.
I got it through the Bookcrossing project, and soon it will be "in the wild" again.

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Soprano said on Jan 16, 2008 | Add your feedback

Naturally, better than the crappy 70's movie...

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dalai lala said on Jan 6, 2008 | Add your feedback

Epidemic response thriller

This one is pretty good for a Crichton novel. As always, his storytelling is stiff, technical and low on character detail, but if you can get past that the story is interesting.

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Hans said on Nov 13, 2007 | Add your feedback